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Located deep in the heart of the Apple<\/strong> campus is the $100 million Infinite Loop Lab<\/strong>. Engadget<\/a> scored a look inside the former “black lab” and revealed what seems like a pretty-damn thorough testing facility.<\/p>\n KID A-pple<\/strong> NOBODY TESTS IT BETTER<\/strong> \u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n Those blue spikes are made of sound- and signal-dampening foam. The room above tests signal strength at any angle by strapping the device to a rotating arm. When Engadget<\/a> arrived there was an iPad<\/strong> being tested. They asked why and Apple<\/strong> responded “\u2026[we’ve been testing the iPad<\/strong>] for years.” Interesting.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n Testing the iPhone<\/strong> pain threshold in the\u00a0MacHAL 9000 Iron Maiden<\/strong>. Or something to do with WiFi networks.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n The “Stargate” enechoic chamber tests signal strength a full 360\u00b0 around someone using the device.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n More info and video in the full\u00a0Engadget article<\/a>.\u00a0(via MacRumors<\/a>)<\/p>\n RELATED<\/strong>: Located deep in the heart of the Apple campus is the $100 million Infinite Loop Lab. Engadget scored a look inside the former “black lab” and revealed what seems like a pretty-damn thorough testing facility. KID A-pple Although the chilly, dark ‘n glitchy goodness of Kid A‘s “Everything in Its Right Place” makes an ironic-enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[889,1914,200,1912,1556,9,1913,1915,199],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-black-labs","tag-carly-simon","tag-infinite-loop-lab","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-kid-a","tag-machal-9000-iron-maiden","tag-radiohead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlthough the chilly, dark ‘n glitchy goodness of Kid A<\/strong>‘s “Everything in Its Right Place<\/em>” makes an ironic-enough soundtrack, this Radiohead<\/strong> rarity is even more fitting \u2026<\/p>\n
\nRadiohead \u201cNobody Does It Better\u201d <\/a>(Carly Simon)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/edgadget_appletesting.jpg\" "\\"Inside")
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\nSF: Homeless Man Breaks Fourth Wall of iPad Ad (in Ladies Loafers)<\/a>
\nVideo: Jeff Goldblum Ssslowed To Drunken Crawl<\/a>
\niPad: Dog Plays Air Hockey (and Wins)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"